The games industry is undergoing a 'generational change,' says Epic CEO Tim Sweeney: 'A lot of games are released with high budgets, and they're not selling'

[u/CiabattaKatsuie]

https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/the-games-industry-is-undergoing-a-generational-change-says-epic-ceo-tim-sweeney-a-lot-of-games-are-released-with-high-budgets-and-theyre-not-selling/

Tim Sweeney apparently thinks big budget games fail because... They aren't social enough? I personally feel that this is BS, but what do you guys think? Is there a trend to support his comments?

[u/Odd-Zebra-5833]

Technically you can do coop. It’s just not forced on you which is nice. 

[u/matlynar → u/Odd-Zebra-5833]

Yes but I'm sure that's not a huge selling point of the game compared to... [gestures broadly at the game]

[u/Winegalon → u/matlynar]

I dunno, me and my group of friends play coop games almost exclusively (darktide, deep rock galactic, helldivers2, etc), and BG3 was a great coop game. 

 I understand its not the focus, ans its a bit weird because you dont get to see any of the secondary party members history lines, but its still among the best 4 player coop games ever.

And if it was single player only i wouldnt even have tried it.

[u/dig-up-stupid → u/matlynar]

It absolutely is. I know more people who play the game as a group than I do who played it solo. In fact I didn’t even buy the game, a friend bought copies for all of us so we could play the early access together during quarantine. (Then we all played it separately when it finally launched since none of us had time to play together anymore.)

Anyway I would guess most people buy it to play it solo, I’m not disputing that, just saying people who bought it to play with others are definitely numerous.

[u/intercede007 → u/dig-up-stupid]

Anyway I would guess most people buy it to play it solo, I’m not disputing that, just saying people who bought it to play with others are definitely numerous.

It me.

I have no interest in the game solo. It's way too extra for me. I'm just not that smart and don't want to work that hard in my free time. But some friends are into DnD and we're sick of playing Civ6 every week. Bought it just to do a coop campaign with them, and we're having an amazing time.

[u/TheLukeHines → u/dig-up-stupid]

Yeah honestly I’d still probably be waiting for it to drop in price like most new games right now but I bought it on release because my friends wanted to play together. Glad I did, one of the few games right now worth the asking price.

[u/DZLars → u/[deleted]]

The coop is defintely a great selling point. Every DnD group in the world (big crossover with gamers) would love this experience. It is the only game I've bought from release in 5 years or so because of friends who came back into gaming for this.

[u/cloakrune → u/matlynar]

Actually it was the primary reason I wanted to play! 

[u/VanillaBearMD3 → u/matlynar]

That is the only reason I have the game. It was gifted to me by my DND group so we could all play together.

[u/obp5599 → u/matlynar]

Its a dnd game. It was heavily marketed as being multiplayer coop with your friends. What insanity are you on

[u/alexchrist → u/Odd-Zebra-5833]

What's even more amazing is that you can do local split screen co-op. I did that for a while with one of my friends, it was a lot of fun. Brought me back to playing split screen games as a child

[u/runhillsnotyourmouth → u/Odd-Zebra-5833]